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Mooning Harold Camping
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Harold Camping has revised his doomsday calculations again. He now says that Rapture will occur on October 21, 2011 instead of May 21, 2011. It just so happens that there is a rare Harvest Moon this year on September 12, 2011. I�m wondering if he shouldn�t rethink his recalculations; that date makes so much more sense to me. I do note that the Mayan�s �end of days� prediction of the winter solstice date occurring on December 21, 2012, introduces the number 21 for a 3rd time. One bad thing comes in threes??? I need to consult my local numerologist.

World rapture delayed once again On the twenty first of May it seems God was too busy playing pinball To loose all his earthly extremes He’s put a hold on the earthquakes He has to finish a replay or two What seems like just a few minutes to God Is like months to me and you Harold revised his old calculations Playing music while crunching the new Instead of listening to old Neil Young ‘Twas Pinball Wizard by “The Who” So now we’ve got a new deadline October twenty first is apparently the day That the earth will begin to tremble That the mountains will begin to sway He should have talked to Neil and the Pagans In September we have Harvest Moon The twelfth of that month would be perfect To consolidate old Harold’s rune Copyright 2011 Patrick Granfors

Reviewed by CJ Heck

Reviewed on May 28, 2011

Cute viewpoint, Patrick, excellent poetic humor.
Hugs,
CJ

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Reviewed on May 26, 2011

I think I'll stick with the Mayans, they were pretty damned smart; and they didn't even stick around until the end, they checked out early.

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo

Reviewed on May 25, 2011

Here I thought I could stop paying my bills, now I will be paying them late. So much for the Rapture...

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Peter Schlosser (Reader)

i hate when the rapture interferes with football season!

Reviewed by Ed Matlack

"To consolidate old Harold�s rune"

And if any of us were smart,
Maybe we should just play our own tune,
I few from deep within, powerful burps,
And then from even deeper, one big cresendo fart...;-) e

Reviewed by Chessly Nesci

Excellent write Patrick! I am glad he was wrong and we are still here to read your poem! Take care my friend. :)

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

A lively look at a pretty crafty doomsayer. He not only gets his 15 min. of fame, he gets it over and over again. Each time the crowd grows larger.

Me? I already wrote about 12-21-2012. And, since it's my 70th birthday, will just crawl into a hole and act like a fool for about 5 min. into the whole damn thing blows over and I'll raise my glass the power of numerology to keep people stupid.

Another one of your timely pokes at the balloon.

Ron

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron

And October 21 will come and go and I expect we still will be here. Scripture is quite clear: NO ONE knows the day and to attempt to fix it is akin to divination.

Chip Bergeron

Reviewed by Annabel Sheila

Giggle....It's hard to believe Harold Camping actually has followers! People must really be desperate for something to believe in! Of course throughout human history, kooks have had plenty of followers...I guess nothing's changed...giggle...

Anna

Reviewed by Leysa Lowery

Whew, my birthday is October 18 -- guess my party is still on! LOL! This is a great, fun write!

Reviewed by Regis Auffray

I appreciate your wit and humor and the meaning behind it all, Patrick. Thank you. By the way, I am a "2" in numerology. I am sure that explains a lot. ☻ Love and peace,

Regis

Reviewed by John Bidwell

The Center for Disease Control has posted emergency preparedness for Zombie attacks. Not only that- their servers were knocked out by all the traffic.
There is a catastrophic failure of reason going on.
I share that in case you are wondering what to write about next.
Good job on Camping.

John

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)

. . . and the news media actually spends on-air time to talk about this friggin' nutcase.